Branchlets grey- or purple-brown, often with strong spines up to 1.2 cm. long, pubescent or glabrous.

Leaves

Leaves variable, cuneate or rounded at the base, rounded or acute at the apex, at first pubescent later glabrous, 3–23 cm. long and 1.4–9 cm. wide, petiole up to 1.5 cm. long; lateral nerves 3–9, venation openly reticulate, prominent below.